Beginning in the early 1990s, Mitchell began making sculptures based on her fascination with topology, and especially the marvel known as a Möbius strip. A circular band-cut and reunited after being given a half-twist, a Möbius strip has only one, continuous surface - if you were to walk around it, you'd return to your starting place at the end of two complete circuits. It's a model of infinity you can see and touch, at once plain and mathematically fancy. Mitchell's lilting half-twist sculptures have a special grace and freedom. Constructed from materials as various as cast stainless steel, jute and found objects, they seem to fold subject matter and materials into themselves, suggesting melodic variations and recurring life themes. The eye links with, then sinks through Mitchell's porous, seductively complicated surfaces. READ MORE